Kansas Winter Wheat Improves After Precipitation, USDA Says

Jan. 3 (Bloomberg) -- About 53 percent of the winter wheat
in Kansas, the biggest producer, was rated good-to-excellent as
of Jan. 1, up from 47 percent a month earlier, after receiving
much-needed precipitation, the U.S. Department of Agriculture
said today.

About 63 percent of Oklahoma’s crop received the top
ratings as of Dec. 31, compared with 56 percent in late
November, according to the USDA. The crop in Texas was rated 25
percent good-to-excellent, unchanged from the end of November.